aqbanking / ofx downloads to wrong account and can't straighten out

[David Carlson]

I think I found the WIKI page covering this.  It looks like just about what
John remembers, but perhaps there is a subtle difference:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings.

David C

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Bill Starrs <wjstarrsiii at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for your response. I followed this and have the same situation.
> The transactions and balance are correct for the account that I update
> from, but the transactions still go to the other account, as well as the
> reconciliation window opens for the other account.
>
> Still scratching my head.  There has to be a way to manually fix it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 02:05:02PM -0800, John Ralls wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2018, at 12:08 PM, Bill Starrs <wjstarrsiii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> A few months ago I had to change a credit card # due to fraud and
>>> reconfigure it through aqbanking.  When I did this, I accidentally
>>> associated it with the wrong credit card account in gnucash.
>>>
>>> After re-configuring it again, and again, and again, in the wizard, I
>>> now have a situation where when I am sitting in the proper account and
>>> download transactions, I get the preview of the charges for that card,
>>> however in the "Account" column of the download reconciliation dialog,
>>> it shows the other, mistaken account.  When I accept the transactions,
>>> they are placed into that other account.  I then have to manually change
>>> them to put them in the right account.  Account balancing also does not
>>> work as it opens the balance dialog of the incorrect account.
>>>
>>> I gave up on fixing with the ui and started looking through the .gnucash
>>> and .aqbanking directories as well as the mariadb gnucash database to
>>> manually fix this setting but have given up here too.
>>>
>>>
>> I haven't had to do this in a while, but IIRC you run the Online Banking
>> Setup assistant, start and close the AQBanking wizard, and click "forward"
>> on the GnuCash assistant. The next screen is a list of your AQBanking
>> accounts. Double-click the one that you want to change and you'll get a
>> Select Account dialog from which you can pick the new account. Once you
>> have done that, the account name will appear in the middle column and the
>> "New?" box will be checked. Click "Forward" and the "Apply".
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
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